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A NO-RENT MOVEMENT.
District Assembly TOrty-nine Consider
ing the Matter.

District Assembly Torty-nine Consider.
ing the Matter.
New YORK, Feb. AT a meeting of
district assembly Forty-nine a proposition
was made to direct all the working people
of New York, Brooklyn and Jersey City, to
refuse to pay any rent after next Saturday.
The proposition was seriously considered by
the leaders, and will probably be- adopted.
- The Tribune says: 1t is Stated that
the next stepto be taken by the leaders of
the strike is to put into operation their "plan
of campaign" That is, orders will be is
sued to all members of the Knights of Labor
and other organizations which can be con-
trolled by district assembly Forty-nine, to
refuse to pay any rent to the landlords.
but to pay the rent money into fund
which will go to the support Of the strik rs
This plan has been discussed in all serious
ness by the strikers, and it is asserted posi-
lively by some of them that it will be put
into operation next Monday. When asked
what would b. done with the evicted peo-
pie, one of them replied: "You can't evict
q whole city"
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MARRIED BY PROXY.


FOOlishness.
CHICAGO, Feb. 2.-The labor organ of the
city states that August Spies was married
last Saturday night in the office of Justics
Engeh ardt in the town of Jefferson. few
miles from the city. Spies was repr sented
by his brother, henry w. Spies. Justice
Engelhardt had given the parties interested
an opinion to the effect that marriage by
proxy would be binding in law ii the proxy
was made out in legal form. He was COM
missioned to draw up a form of proxy
which was taken to August Spies
in Jail, and he signed it in
the presence of four witnesses. By the
document he gave full authority to his
brother Henry to repres mt him at thu mar
riage ceremony. 1t is stated that Miss
Van Zandts parents were present at the
marriage by proxy. Miss Van Zandt's
object in having this questionable cere-
mony performed, it is stated, is to be able
as the wife of Spies to visit him iu the
county Jail No doubt she will be allowed
to see his proxy-the sheriff. Justice
Engelhardt, in an interview, confirmed the
report, and admitted that he performed
the ceremony. Miss Gretchen, sister of
Spies, also admitted that the statement
was true.
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RAILROAD KNIGHTS.
n Trade District to bs Formed on tho
Lines Cehtering In BOstOn.


BosToN, Jan. Sl.--For some time past the
employ OF the various steam railroads
having their termini in this city have been
vigorously asitating tho question of form
ing trade district Of the Knights of La
bor The ilea found such favor among the
railroad men here that it was determined
to form another and larger district which
should take in all the employees who wished,
OF all the New England steam railroads The
new district will probably have member
ship OF over $4,000 men. all of whom obtain
th-ir living from the railroads. The object
OF the district will be to see that the men
are fairly compensated and have reasonable
hours, and will keep a general over
sight OF the welfare of members. State dis
trict organizers will TAX. the field, and
mass meetings will be called to start the
district and interest thu men, and a sick
and death benefit fund will be established.
Meetings will be called in all large towns
throughout New England where railroads
center and the district organized as soon as
possible AT an early date,:a meeting will
be called at Preble Hall in this city, when
delegatts from the local assembly and rep
resentatives for every new district will
meet and discuss the matter.
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THE NEWS CONDENSED.
ThursSlny. Jan. 27.

Gen. Corse, who is now in Washington,
~ hopeful that he may be able to secure
the new fast mail train between New York
and Boston.
1t is estimated that to carry out the
provisions Of the Mexican pension bill
would require more than four and half
millions the first year.
The French company's cable between this
country and France is broken at some point
between st. Pier and Brest 1t will prob
ably take month to repair the damage.
The steamer Arles Philadelphia for Bos-
ton, which went ashore two days ago at
Cellar Creek, N. j., has been got off with
out injury and will soon arrive at Boston.
The vessel lost, with all on board, near
Halifax harbor on Monday night, proves to
be the e. Graham, from Bermuda. She
had crew Of six men, and, possibly,
several passeng rs.
The manuscripts and sketches Of Gilbert
and Sullivan's new opera "Kuddygore"
have arrived in New York. The scenery
and costumes, it is estimated, for the initial
performance will cost $4,000.
The tenants on the estate of Richard
Brooks, at Kilreigh, county Cork, have
uuoPVcu Ouc pan VI CduiphiSu uuei iou6cu
half the amount Of their rents with the
agent of the National league. Writs are
served on the t.nants.
The schooner Lizzie Major, from Mari
caibo for Boston, with fustic and cedar,
went ashore on the south side of Naush OH
on Monday at 3 a. m., in thick fog.
Her crew reached New Bedford. The
schooner is total loss
Inspector Knox of Boston arrested
Philippe L. Clark, a real estate agent, OH
warrant charging him with obtaining $5O7
from Henry W. Holland under false pre-
tences Holland claims that Clark gave
bogus mortgage III exchange for the
money.
A special from Spokane Falls, w. T., to
The Pionear Press says: 1t is said that
terrible sutferings exist on the Colville
reservation. eighty miles north, smallpox
having broken out in the tribe with great
fatality. Deep snow has prevented hunt
ing and government supplies have been in
ADEQUATE.
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BRIGHAM YOUNG ALIVE.
THE NOTED MORMON TO PLAY AT
RESURRECTION.

The Latter Day Saints to be Enlivened
by the Reappearance of Their Old
Leader With Fresh Theology From
Beyond the Grave.
CHICAGO, Jan. 31.-A special to The
Tribune from Lincoln, Neb, says that
Brigham Young, the great prophet of the
Mormon church, is not dead as generally
supposed, but has recently returned from
London and is living in seclusion two miles
south of Lincoln, in palatial residence
owned by an English gentleman long since
identified with the Mormon church The
dispatch also says that the prophet is to be
resurrected from the dead and preach to the
people of Zion, as one having returned
from the grave to tell what lies beyond.
WASHINGTON, Feb IA reporter called
the attention of Delegate Caine to the story
from Lincoln. Neb., to the effect that Brig
ham Young was still alive. He pronounced
it "cock and bull'' story. II don't
know anything about it beyond this, that
know Young is dead saw him after his
hth, when be was laid out. went to his
neral and saw him buried and ten-ton
me put on top Of him. know he was
ad l knew him as we'll, indeed, much
etter, than know you, and nev,r knew
II any scar ON his wrist"
Another Utah man, an anti Mormon,
low here, says h, has no doubt the story is
true. He remembers that a wax figure
was buried in an imitation of the
Savior's tomb, instead of Young, and
insists that Young was hidden, to b,
''resurrected" at som, opportune moment
At first it was to be when the Mormons
TO Il t,,av, taI ko
but the scheme was abandoned. Now
that the Mormons Sc, ruin staring
them in the tace from the Tucker anti-polyg-
amy bill, which is SO surely to becoms
law, they are preparing for a migration to
the Hawiian islands, and would undoubt-
edly have used the resurrection" of Brig
ham Young, had they uot at this late day
been frustrated by the confession of his
keeper
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saturday. Jan. 20.

Italians ar to be put to work handli
coal at South Amboy.
Collieries at Wilkesbarre, Penn, are un-
able to resume operations on account OF
lack of empty cars.
Thurber's twine mill, located about six
miles from Putnam, Conn, was burned.
Loss $4,000; insurance $1,000.
a Canadian member Of parliament PEE
diets the defeat of Sir John Macdonald an
q better feeling toward the United States
The secretary of the Hebrew dramatic
club, which was giving an entertainment at
the hall in Spitalfields in which panic oc-
Cured on Jan. Is, resulting in the loss of
seventeen lives, has testified that tn. panic
was caused by the action of the secretary
of rival club
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MI@lSTER PENDLETON'S PLANS.
He Refuses to Affirm or Deny the Re-
port That He is to Resign.

He Refuses to Affirm Deny the Re-
port That He is to Resign.
New YORK, Feb. 2.-Minister Pendleton
refuses to affirm or deny the report that he
is to resign the Berlin mission. He will go
to Washington probably, and will have
conference with the president and secretary
of state.
1t is known that Mr. Pendleton has
always been desirous of place in
Mr.. Cleveland's cabinet, and it is
hoped by his friends here that, in
the reorganization that is said to be con-
templated, he may find portfolio. He is
not adverse to accepting position as one
of the interstate commerce commissioners.
Should he get either of the above places
he will not return to Berlin, but he will not
give up his diplomatic post until he is GER
tain of some equally good place.
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Monday, Jan. 81.

The Fall River mills are likely to be
compelled to shut down for lack Of coal,
owing to ths New York strike.
Charles p Illsley, the founder of the
Portland Transcript, died at Cambridge
Saturday. He was 81 years old.
Curtis Davis. the widely known soap
manufacturer, died suddenly at his home in
Cambridge, Mass, in his I'D year.
Testimony in the O'Neill case has gono
far to overthrow the stories of the secret
meetings of the ''boodle thirteen"
. Tn e current gossip in Washington is that
ecretary Manning will soon leave the cab
met and accept the presidency of the new
national bank in New York.
The treasurer of the Germania bank of
Jersey city robs that institution of $4,000
and leaves for parts unknown; the depos-
itors to be paid in full
Secretary Manning is non-committal con-
cerning the report that he contemplates re-
tiring from the cabinet and accepting the
presidency of New York bank soon to be
established.
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AN EFFECT OF THE STRIKE.

Manufacturing Interests in Lowell Grip
pied by the Trouble in New York.
LOWELL. Mass, Feb 2.-The extensive
strikes in New York city have seriously
affected business interests in this city. II
they continue much longer the loss to mer-
camille and manufacturing industries will
be disastrous. The United States Cartridge
company has discharged forty hands ON ac-
count Of not receiving certain metals 2sed
in the manufacture of their products. Con-
necticut manufactures that furnish some
Of the company's supplies have shut down
for lack of coal Hence the above action.
1t is expected that other hands will be senJ
out Other manufacturing concerns feel
the effect of the strike, and all branches Of
business are beginning to be injured
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SULLlVAN'S ARM BROKEN.
A Surgeon Breaks 1t for the Purpose q
setting 1t Right Again.

A Surgeon Breaks 1t for the Purpose Of
setting 1t Right Again.
New YoRK, Jan g9--John L. Sullivan
went to the office of DR.. Sayre and con
suited him about the Woken arm The Gel
-eb. ated surgeon qu@kly determined that
the bone had not be5n set in the best man
ner, and told Sullivan es would never get
the eat'1sJp4- Y .p 49, Of \ .m unless be had
it broken again Efad reset SUI
livan told the surgeon to go abe ID.
With sudden" twist, DR.. Sayre
opened the fracture. The bone was reset
and the arm was bandaged. Sullivan
tainted with pain, but came to in second
and was then sick. DR.. Sayre explain d.
after the bone was reset that it would have
been impossible for Sullivan to bring tho
hand up in front of him with the palm to-
ward tine face, and, of coursa, the natural
use OF the arm would be impeded in many
ways. There is no doubt in DR.. Sayre's
mind that the arm will now becom as
strong and effective as it ever was
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Sunday, Jan. 80.
G. w. Childs is in better health.

G. w. Childs is in better health.
There was serious riot in Belfast Satur-
day night.
A fire on Cromwell pier. New York, de-
stroyed SS0,OOO worth of goods.
A loss of $4,000 was caused by fire in
the ordnance machine shops at Washington.
President Stromberg denies that the st.
Louis Ball club will leave the league.
The Vanceboro Wooden Ware company's
mill at Vanceboro, Me-, was burned; loss
$4,000.
Twelve hundred coal miners in Pictou
county, Nova Scotia, strike to day against
a reduction of wages.
Judge Dillon thinks the interstate com.
merce bill prohibits the issue of compli
mentary passes on railroads.
A body found at Bloomfield, Conn sew
eral weeks since has been identified as that
of Cyrus Chaplin of Boston.
William Cornish has been lynched near
Springfield, KY, for shooting woman who
rejected his offer of marriag.
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Friday. Jan. 2S.

The Dominion legislature met at Quebec.
Several changes in the Dominion cabinet
are announced.
the London Standard says the queen will
visit Darmstadt the home of Princes Alex
The American schooners Jeanette and
Maggie Mitchell will be released by the
Dominion government on paym mt OF fines.
In the state labor convention at Spring.
field. H., a resolution demanding a new
trial fssr the. condemn d. Anarchists was re-
jected.
The Toronto Mail deems it unfortunate
that general election should be pending at
time when Canada is assailed by Anieri-
can legislators
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IN A COMFORTABLE CLIMATE.
Canadian Snowshoers Warming Them
selves at Boston.

Canadian SnOwshOers Warming Them
selves at Boston.
Boston. Feb about 800 snowshoers
from Montreal, Quebec and other northern
villages came here by train yesterday from
Montreal, and are having no end of fun.
They Were received by representatives of
snowshoe, tobogganing and bicycle clubs of
this neighborhood, Worcester and Woon-
socket They were received at the city hall,
where Mayor O'Brien, of Boston, and
Mayor Beaurgrand, of Montreal, met ini
dulging in funny remarks about
bank cashiers and fish. The Wis
isors were received at the state
house by Governor Ames, Speaker Noyes
and Adjutant-General Dalton, and were
shown the Goldfish in the representatives
room. They were taken down to Deer
island to see the penitentiary- dis.
tiinguished visitors to the city are taken
There-and in the evening they gave a
torchlight parade and an exhibition of snow
shoe business at Music hall, where they also
did some singing. The conditions are un-
favorable to outdoor sports, but the Wis.,
itors will, however, be entertained at the
houses of the Massachusetts, and Boston
bicycle clubs Or course there has been
plenty of eating and speechmaking thus
far.
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Wednesday, Feb. 2.

Two fremen were injured at fire in
South Boston.
Lyman w. Smith Of Norwood, Mass.
will start a tannery at Canton, Me, in the
spring
A personal encounter is imminent he
tween Senator Vest and Congressman
Glover.
A large number Of coal miners in Pictou
county, N. S., have struck because Of a re-
duction in wages.
A company has been formed to build a
submarine turnel between Prince Edward
Island and New Brunswick.
The Cincinnati Daily Sun stops publica-
cation because the moneyed directors refuse
to contribute any more cash.
The strike of shoemakers in Worcester
county continues. In Spencer I'll Knights
of Labor have left the shoe shops.
elected Frederick s. Fish, of Essex, for pres
ident, and adjourned until Monday.
The Boston and Cambridge police have
now arrested eleven members of the gang
of young thieves broken up the other day.
The New York court of appeals decides
that the elevated railroads must pay dam
ages to abuttors for loss of light and air.
William Knox Haines is under arrest in
Chicago on the charge of using the mails
for fraudulent purposes. He is under in
dictment in Boston.
The bill! for refunding the direct tax
levied on states during the war, if passed
would reduce the surplus to the extent Of
about twenty millions
There are grave fears in Maine that
tuberculosis from the infected herd Of the
state college has been spread through the
eastern part of the state.
There will be no strike on the Cambridge,
Mass, railroad, the company having yielded
to most of the demands of the employees.
The fare is to be reduced to cents.
The Indiana legislature went into joint
convention and took one ballot for United
States senator. All the members except
two were present and the ballot resulted:
Turpie a. Harrison 70, Allen 4.
The American Col Long, who was chief
of staff to the late Gen. Gordon, writes to
the Khedfyal Geographical society that
Henry NJ. .'Stanley's expedition to relieve
Emin Bey is mere pretence to enable
Great Britain to seize the equatorial
provinces. He violently protests against
Egypt's paying for this, which, he declares.
is the sole object of the expedition. He
maintains that Emin Bey is perfectly safe.
Stanley ridicules the letter.
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THE WAGES OF SIN.
Defaulter Blackstone Suffering for His
Crime.

Defaulter Blackstone Suffering for His
Crime.
WINNIPEG. Man., Feb. 1.-The prelimin-
ary examination in the case of Blackstone,
the Portland defaulter and forger, was pro-
ceeded with. Charles Allen, Blackstone IS
successor in the bank, and swore to bogus
entries in the discount book as being Black
stones handwriting, and identified the
prisoners handwriting in letter which he
wrote to President Thomas last December
confessing to having stolen $75,5SO, which
he lostfn mining stock The letter con-
cludek: -, -
~ "fhey say stood high in church; that's
lie. l have not attended church for two
years have had too great a weight Of
sin on my conscience. Let no man tell me
that the wages of sin are not death. In
stead of being an exile and fugitive from
justice might to-day, if had not wronged,
have been bank cashier"
Since his incarceration Blackstone has
grown pale and haggard. His wife and
child have gone to St Paul. The prisoner
is likely to be extradited.
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ANOTHER CASE OF ARSENIC.
Result of the Examination of the Re
mains of Oliver Sleeper.

mains of Oliver Sleeper.
BosToN. Feb. LIN the body of Oliver
Sleeper of Cambridge, which was recently
exhumed from Mount Auburn cemetery
owing to suspicious that he was another
victim of Mrs. Robinson, the alleged SOM
.rville poisoner, has been found the ex.
p cted indications of arsenical poisoning.
The quantity Of arsenic found was about
the same as discovered in the other cases.
it is presumed that the investigation will
now 60 back still further, and that the
body of a Mr.. Field Of Chelsea, with whom
Mrs. Robinson lived at one time, will be
the next to come under the inspection of
the doctors DR.. Bean, who attended Mr.
Field during his sickness. has said that his
symptoms were those Of arsenical poison
ing. Mr.. Sleeper makes the seventh person
who is supposed to have fallen victim to
the cunning Robinson woman.
Nothing definite can as yet be said in
reference to the dat, of Mrs Robinson's
trial, the expectation being that it will
take place in February or April
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DEATH CAUSED BY ZINC.

Result of the Analysis of the Stomach
of A. c. Williams.
BosToN, Jan 31.-The chemist who has
been engaged in making an analysis of the
organs of the body of the late A. C. Will
Jams, of East Somerville, reports that a
sufficient quantity of zinc was found to
have caused death. The result of this re-
port will be the holding of an inquest some
time during the present week.
One or more persons are suspected of
connection with the death of Mr.. Williams
but the difficulty appears to be that while
this suspicion exists there is not dir ct evi.
dence enough to warrant the police in max
ing an arrest
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POISONED BY THE NURSE.
a Prominent Hartford Family Givel
Arsenic in Their Tea.

Arsenic in Their Tea.
HARTFORD, Conn, Jan. 27.-The family
of +. W. Plimpton, secretary and treasurer
OF the Plimpton Manufacturing company,
which has the governm mt contract for
envelopes, was poisoned by the nurse,
Emma F. Davis About a month ago the
family were all sickened after drinking
tea which had been prepared by Miss
Davis Principal Hail of the high school,
ex state chemist, analyzed the remains in
the cups and found arsenic in profusion.
The woman was discharged but rearrested,
as there is now evidence conclusive of her
guilt at hand. None Of the family will die.
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BOSTON OPERATIVE TAILORS.

They Leave the Knights of Labor and
Organize q Union.
BosToN, Jan. 31.-The operative tailors
of Boston have held a meeting for the pur-
pose of forming a tailors' union. After
considerable discussion it was voted to sur
render the charter which they hold as
Knights of Labor and to proceed to the for
nation of a union. Officers was chosen.
1t was voted to apply for admittance into
the. Federation of Trades, and to issue call
for national convention Of tailors to be
held in June next.
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CYRUS CHAPIN'S DEATH.
Belief That He Was Killed by CObleigh,
the Wife Murderer.

A'OAsCA Auot h0 was h1ll6u Oy CoUiOhShS
the Wife Murderer.
Boston, Feb at is reported from
Baldwinsville, Mass, that people there be-
ieve that Cyrus Chaplin, the cattle dealer,
whose dead body was found q short tims
ago on Tallcott mountain, in Connecticut,
was murdered. Chaplin disappeared on
Dec. 26, 1885, Suspicion is said to rest OIL
Charles W. Cobleigh, who shot and killed
his wife in Baldwinsville last June. 1t is
reported in support of this suspicion that
Cobleigh's wife, before her death, had told
the police that her husband had probably
killed Chaplin. Cobleigh was tried for the
murder OF his wife and adjudged insane,
and he is now in an asylum. VIXEN
Chaplin was last seen he was going toward
Cobleigh's house. He then had about 5000
on his person When found there were
only few cents in his pockets.
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ALARM FOR PARNElL,
His Mind Said to Have Been Seriousl,
Affected by His Sickness.

LONDON, Jan. 3l.-The stats of Mr.. Par
nell's health is occasioning the greatest
solicitude to his friends His condition is
very grave. He looks pale, and is phys
ically mere shadow of his former self,
Distressing rumors are abroad that his
mind has become affected and that he is
wholly unfitt,d to act as the vigorous
leader of the Irish Nationalists in parlia-
ment Hostile reports even say that the
'uncrowned king" is bordering upon in
sanity. l give these statements with all
reserve, and hope with all other friends of
Ireland that they may prove untrue. The
wearing nature of his sickness during the
recess has certainly told heavily upon him.
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The bids for the Boston park loan OF
S50O,0O0 have not boen satisfactory. No
bid will be received for less than par.
Raymond Belmont, 81, the son OF August
Belmont, shot himself deal at New York
on returning home early in the morning.
1t is reported that new Telegraph line is
to be built between New York a. Chicago.
and that it will consist of cable of forty
wres to be leased for private business.
Many of the national Republican leaders
have accepted the invitation of the Repub-
lican club, of New York, to attend its ban.
quet on Feb. IL. A brilliant assemblage is
anticipated.